la borie



L. LA BORIE.

PICTURE MAKING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. a. 1921.

Patented Aug. 15, 1922.

INVENT'OR. Iowa/la 70726.

care

orrica.

LOUIS LA BOB/IE, OF ROCHESTER, N. Y.

PICTURE-MAKING APPARATUS.

Application filed February 3, 1921.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS LA Bonm, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Picture-Making Apparatus; and I- do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the reference numerals marked thereon.

My present invention relates to games and toys and more particularly to amusement devices for making or reproducing pictures and it has for its object to provide an apparatus in the nature of a drawing book of improved form and designed to enable very young children to make fairly accurate copies of figures, pictures or outlines as formed upon guide sheets constituting part ofthe apparatus. The improvements relate in part toward providing a plurality of such guide sheets in convenient form and furnishing a suitable and convenient tablet or writing surface for selective use with any one of the guide sheets. To these and other ends the invention resides in certain improvements and combinations of parts all as will be hereinafter more fully described. the novel features being pointed out in the claims at the end of the specification.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view of a drawing book constructed in accordance with and illustrati ing one embodiment of my invention, the

' sition Figure 2 is an enlarged fragmentary view of the book with the tablet in operative position, and

Figure 3 is a longitudinal section taken on the line 3 3 of Figure 2.

Similar reference numerals throughout the several views indicate the same parts.

In the present instance, I have illustrated a book embodying a plurality of stencil sheets showing the outlines of animals or similar objects that are to be traced by the child and then colored or otherwise elaborated or used. The book comprises back pieces 1 and 2 to which are respectively connected by flexible leather or other hinges 3 a back cover 4 and a front cover 5. The back pieces are held together by a known type of two part threaded posts 7 and the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 15, 1922.

Serial No. 442,264. I

stencil or guide sheets 8 are perforated at one edge to receive these posts and clamped by them between the back pieces 1, as shown in Figure 3, to constitute the leaves of the book. They may be secured or otherwise fitted along lines closely adjacent to the back pieces to turn or fold readily in the mannor of a book leaf. Each guide sheet, in the present instance, is cut out to produce the stencil outline of an object as a lion, indicated at 9, and a fish as indicated at 10 on two adjacent sheets.

The back pieces 1, as described, are connected along one edge of each cover, andhinged to another edge of one of the covers, preferably the back cover 4;, is a tablet 11'. In the present instance, this tablet is connected at the opposite edge of the said cover by a flexible leather hinge 12 so that the leaves or stenciled sheets 8 and the tablet swing toward andfrom each other in the same vertical plane. The tablet may be made of any stiff, thin substance presenting a smooth writing surface and I prefer tov employ for the purpose a good gradeof fiber board or cardboard. It may be fitted at its corners with triangular retaining pockets 13 one purpose of which is to hold a plurality of drawing sheets 14 slipped beneath them and detachable from the tablet when used. 'These are the receiving sheets upon which the pictures are made. The hinge 12 of the tablet gives suflicient flexibility and range to the swinging movements of the latter to permit it to be inserted selectively between any two or beneath any one of the guide sheets 8.

In using the device, the book is opened to the guide sheet or stencil S that is selected for reproduction as, for instance, the one bearing the outline of the lion 9 in the figures. This sheet is raised and the tablet 11 folded down beneath it as shown in Figure 2 to rest upon the pile of leaves or stencils beneath. The guide sheet is then folded down from the other direction to a superposed position upon the tablet as in Figure 3 and preferably the free corners thereof are caught beneath the corner retaining pockets 13 near the hinge of the tablet to further insure that the latter and the guide sheet will be maintained in proper relationship. The chiid now traces with a pencil or other instrument the outline 9 upon the uppermost receiving sheet 14 and then folds the stencil sheet back again, whereat the picture produced may be worked on and elaborated as by coloring, still using the tablet 11 as a drawing'board. \Vhenfinished, the picture is easily detached and the next one below is ready to receive an outline from the same or another selective guide sheet in the same manner.

A tablet so mounted in'a book of this kind not only makes it easy for the child to keep the paper and the guide sheet in fixed re lationship while the tracing is being done but it provides a convenient and good writing surface that cannot be detached, lost or misplaced and which is particularly necessary when stencils are used as the underlying stencil is impossible for use as a writing surface.

I may fit one of the covers as the back cover 4 with a pocket 15 for the reception of drawing sheets, crayons or other paraphernalia which will tend to make the whole-outfit self-contained.

V In using the word tablet herein, unless otherwise specified, I am using it in the broad sense of a writing surface whether or not it contained a plurality of superposed blank sheets.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a-' picture making apparatus, the combination with a support,rof a. movable 7 guide sheet and a movable tablet adapted to support a picture receiving sheet beneath the guide sheet, the latter and the tablet being maintained in proper relationship by the support.

2. In a picture making apparatus, the combination with a support, of a guide: sheet hinged thereto and a tablet adapted to support a picture receiving sheet beneath the guide sheet, the tabletbeing hinged to the support on an axis removed from that of the guide sheet.

3. In a picture making apparatus, the combination with a support, of a guide sheet hinged thereto at one side of the support, and a tablet adapted to support a picture receiving sheet beneath the guide sheet, the

tablet being hinged'to the support at the opposite side so that two hinged elements swin toward and from each other.

at. n a picture'making apparatus, the

combination with a support, of a guide sheet hinged thereto and a tablet adapted to support a picture receiving sheet beneath the guide sheet, the tablet being hinged to the support on an axis removed from that of the guide sheet, and being provided with devices for temporarily catching and holding the free end of the guide sheet.

5. In a picture making apparatus, the combination with a support, of a guide sheet hinged thereto and a tablet adapted to support a picture receiving sheet beneath the guide sheet, the tablet being hinged to the support on an axis removed from that of the guide sheet, and being provided with devices for retaining thereon a plurality of picture sheets, said devices also operating to temporarily catch and hold the free end of the guide sheet.

6. Ina picture making apparatus, the combination with a book embodying a plu rality of guide sheets bound together and provided with a cover, of a tablet adapted to support a picture receiving sheet beneath any one of the guide sheets, selectively, said tablet being hinged to the cover along an edge thereof other than that to which the guide sheets are attached.

7. In a picture making apparatus, the combination with a book embodying a plurality of guide sheets bound together and provided with a cover, of a tablet adapted to support a picture receiving sheet beneath any one of the guide sheets, selectively, said tablet being hinged to the cover by a flexible hinge attached to the latter at the opposite edge from that of the guide sheets.

8. In a picture making apparatus, the combination with a book embodying a cover and a plurality of stencil sheets bound together along one edge of the cover, of a tablet having devices thereon adapted to detachably support a plurality of picture receiving sheets beneath any one of the stencil sheets, selectively, said tablet being hinged to the opposite edge of the cover and the sheet holding device thereon being also adapted to temporarily retain the free end of a stencil sheet.

LOUIS LA BORIE. 

